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The Memo: Putin and Netanyahu vex Trump on the world stage

Two foreign leaders have become more vexing to President Trump than he expected: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

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5 takeaways as Trump’s trip to Scotland nears conclusion

President Trump will conclude his four-day trip to his ancestral homeland of Scotland on Tuesday. The final engagement on Trump’s official schedule...

29.07.2025 2

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Five unanswered questions around Trump and the Epstein saga

The controversy over Jeffrey Epstein rumbles on, despite President Trump’s efforts to put it behind him. It’s been almost three weeks since a...

26.07.2025 10

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The Memo: Trump fuels Epstein furor he wants to escape

President Trump and his allies are desperate to move past the Jeffrey Epstein controversy — but their own words and actions are having the opposite...

23.07.2025 50

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The Memo: Trump-Murdoch story takes dramatic new turn with WSJ lawsuit

The tangled and tumultuous relationship between President Trump and media mogul Rupert Murdoch has taken a new, dramatic turn. Trump is suing Murdoch,...

19.07.2025 60

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The Memo: Trump struggles to extract himself from Epstein mire

President Trump is trying, yet again, to climb out of the political mire into which he has sunk over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. On Wednesday, Trump...

17.07.2025 40

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The Memo: Trump adopts new aggressive stance on Russia

President Trump moved to a more aggressive footing with Russia on Monday, promising to funnel weapons through NATO allies to Ukraine and threatening...

15.07.2025 20

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The Memo: SCOTUS clears the way for Trump – and for his successors

The Supreme Court’s decision in a birthright citizenship case, handed down on Friday, has ramifications way beyond President Trump. The big,...

28.06.2025 10

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The Memo: Trump fights to hold on to narrative of Iran win

President Trump is punching back at critics and doubters as he tries to bolster his claim that the U.S. bombing of Iran was a full success,...

26.06.2025 10

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The Memo: Trump pumps brakes, lightly, on joining Israel's assault on Iran

President Trump is pumping the brakes, at least for the moment, on direct U.S. engagement in Israel’s assault on Iran. On Thursday, Trump determined...

21.06.2025 30

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The Memo: US faces sea of risk if Trump presses ahead with Iran attack

President Trump looked to be on the cusp of deciding whether to join Israel’s attack on Iran on Wednesday. Trump told reporters at the White House...

19.06.2025 60

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The Memo: Risks loom as Trump moves toward direct participation in Israel’s attack on Iran

President Trump is becoming ever more emphatic in his backing of Israel’s attack on Iran, with the chances rising by the hour that he will...

18.06.2025 60

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What we know in the aftermath of the Minnesota shootings

Tremors spread though the political world on Monday after the weekend’s fatal shooting of a Democratic lawmaker and her spouse in Minnesota, and...

17.06.2025 10

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The Memo: Trump grapples with prospect of all-out Israel-Iran war

President Trump faces a volatile, fast-moving global crisis as Israel and Iran teeter on the brink of all-out war. The situation is shifting by the...

14.06.2025 10

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The Memo: Trump’s National Guard move ratchets up controversy over looming military parade

The national furor over the situation in Los Angeles is bleeding into the debate over the massive military parade scheduled for Washington this...

11.06.2025 20

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The Memo: Uneasy truce descends in Trump-Musk war

President Trump and Elon Musk let an uneasy truce mostly take hold Friday, a day after their previous alliance imploded in spectacular fashion. On...

07.06.2025 10

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5 takeaways from the explosive Trump-Musk divorce

The feud between President Trump and Elon Musk grew exponentially more bitter on Thursday. The two exchanged volleys of insults that reached their...

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The Memo: Musk drops bomb on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Elon Musk dropped a rhetorical bomb on President Trump’s plans to pass a massive budget bill on Tuesday. Musk, the world’s richest man, excoriated...

04.06.2025 50

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Five takeaways from Trump’s White House farewell to Elon Musk

President Trump and Elon Musk appeared together one last time in the Oval Office on Friday, marking the exit of the world’s richest man from his...

31.05.2025 10

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The Memo: Tariffs pause, Musk exit hold silver linings for Trump

President Trump could have his political fortunes buoyed by two developments that are not of his own choosing. Within hours on Wednesday night, Elon...

30.05.2025 10

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The Memo: Trump paints himself into a corner on Putin and Ukraine

President Trump has boxed himself into a corner with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine — and it’s not entirely clear how he gets out....

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Trump ratchets up battle with Harvard, foreign students: 5 takeaways

The Trump administration intensified its battle with Harvard University on Thursday, revoking the storied college’s ability to enroll foreign...

23.05.2025 30

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The Memo: Zelensky 2.0? Trump’s ambush of Ramaphosa caters to MAGA base

President Trump for the second time used a meeting with a major foreign leader to cater to his own base on Wednesday. This time it was South African...

22.05.2025 40

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The controversy over Rep. LaMonica McIver’s criminal charges, explained

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) is being charged with assault after a melee outside an immigration detention facility in Newark on May 9. The decision...

21.05.2025 10

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The Memo: Trump’s honeymoon is over; his political resilience isn’t

President Trump’s second-term honeymoon is over, but his political resilience is far from exhausted. Trump is seeking to turn the page after a bleak...

16.05.2025 20

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Winners and losers in Trump’s pause on China tariffs

The curtain came down on the first phase of President Trump’s tariff and trade war earlier this week, when the U.S. announced a huge reduction in...

14.05.2025 20

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The Memo: Trump makes pivot on tariffs, seeking firmer political ground

President Trump is resetting on tariffs after almost six weeks of turmoil that threatened to upend his second term. A Monday announcement that the...

13.05.2025 10

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Trump’s 5 biggest mistakes of his first 100 days

President Trump will mark his 100th day in office with a rally in Michigan on Tuesday. But reasons for celebration are in short supply. Trump’s...

29.04.2025 60

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The Memo: Wisconsin judge’s arrest opens new front in political war over immigration, courts

The Friday arrest of a Wisconsin judge has ratcheted up the stakes even higher in President Trump’s clash with the judiciary. To his liberal...

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The Memo: Trump tries to navigate out of tariff turmoil

President Trump sought to find his way out of a maze of his own making on Wednesday, offering opaque comments as to what he is going to do about...

24.04.2025 10

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The Top 10 Democratic contenders for 2028

A cardinal rule of American politics: It’s never too early to start thinking about the next election. Some Democrats are already making moves that...

21.04.2025 10

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The Abrego Garcia deportation controversy: 5 Key Questions Answered

The controversy around the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia intensified yet again on Wednesday. A senator visited El Salvador, the White House held...

17.04.2025 60

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Trump, Bukele and the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — where things stand

The Trump administration ratcheted up its confrontation with a U.S. District Court judge on Monday, as President Trump met El Salvadoran President...

15.04.2025 40

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Winners and losers from the Trump tariffs drama

President Trump blinked on Wednesday, pausing most of the tariffs he had sought to put on nations around the world. The one big exception is China,...

11.04.2025 50

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5 takeaways from the Trump tariff drama

Financial markets soared on Wednesday after President Trump issued a 90-day pause in almost all the tariffs that had roiled the global economy during...

10.04.2025 30

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The Memo: Amy Coney Barrett becomes an unlikely hate figure for MAGA World

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the target of new ire from President Trump’s most fervent supporters after she bucked his position on a...

09.04.2025 20

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The Memo: Trump under pressure on tariffs as Dow sinks again

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell yet again on Monday, keeping President Trump under pressure over the tariff policy that has roiled the world...

08.04.2025 20

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The Memo: Musk’s risks to Trump become starker

The Elon Musk effect is being hotly debated in Republican circles this weekend, even as the reverberations from President Trump’s tariff policies...

05.04.2025 10

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The Memo: Inside Trump’s big gamble on tariffs

President Trump is set to take the biggest gamble of his second term on Wednesday, when he will announce a fresh round of tariffs. Trump has dubbed...

02.04.2025 10

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The Memo: Trump’s third-term suggestion alarms some Democrats while others roll their eyes

President Trump is leaving the door open to the idea of seeking a third term — even though that door is apparently firmly closed by the...

01.04.2025 10

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Five takeaways as Trump’s clash with the legal world intensifies

Friday brought new twists in President Trump’s intensifying battle with major legal firms. Trump has targeted several firms with executive orders...

29.03.2025 30

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How the Signal 'group chat' furor has affected the 5 biggest players

The furor over a headline-making group chat consumed Washington for a second day on Tuesday. President Trump spoke to reporters from the White House...

26.03.2025 50

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5 takeaways from Trump officials war planning group chat breach

Washington was rocked Monday by a truly extraordinary story. The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, recounted how he had —...

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The Memo: Democrats, lawyers left reeling from Paul, Weiss firm’s Trump deal

A Washington Post editorial appeared earlier this week headlined “Trump’s efforts to intimidate the legal profession cannot stand.” Within 48...

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The Memo: Roberts rebukes Trump in latest twist of White House battle with judiciary

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a clear, if implicit, rebuke of President Trump on Tuesday, intensifying a clash between the White...

19.03.2025 60

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The Memo: Trump ratchets up confrontation with judiciary

President Trump and his administration ramped up their confrontation with the judiciary to extraordinary heights Monday, demanding that a judge whose...

18.03.2025 70

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The Memo: Divided Democrats squander chances to expose Trump’s vulnerability

President Trump is not the political colossus he and his supporters claim — and everything from the stock market to his opinion poll ratings prove...

15.03.2025 8

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Trump’s battle with Washington law firm Perkins Coie, explained

The battle between President Trump and a prominent Washington law firm has taken a new turn this week, as a judge intervenes to pause Trump’s...

14.03.2025 10

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The Memo: Musk-Rubio clash heightens scrutiny on Trump’s approach

Explosive details about a Cabinet meeting confrontation between Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were revealed by The New York Times on...

08.03.2025 50

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The Memo: Trump’s turbulent tariff moves pose risks with voters

President Trump eased his newest tariffs on Wednesday after two days during which those levies roiled financial markets. But the latest tweak only...

06.03.2025 20

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